And you thought watching Lady Gaga perform "You and I" was going to be the only reason to tune in for the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday night. NextMovie reports that the first footage from The Hunger Games will premiere during the telecast, with a special introduction from star Jennifer Lawrence. If you needed even more proof that the adaptation of Suzanne Collins's YA series is the next Twilight, an association with MTV should do the trick. [NextMovie]
Also in this Tuesday edition of The Broadsheet: Alexander Skarsgard may head East... Ron Howard finds a leading lady for Rush... Jennifer Garner is pregnant... and more ahead.
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Bret Easton Ellis, who uses Twitter to air opinions like, "[Glee makes me feel] like I've stepped into a puddle of HIV," is coming face to face with the puddle itself: Glee's Darren Criss has apparently signed on for a supporting role in Downers Grove, costarring Lucy Hale and Hayden Panettiere, which Ellis is adapting. Said Ellis on Twitter, "Whatever my problems with Glee have nothing to do with the incredibly talented cast itself. Have tastelessly bashed the show not the actors." Still, a minor LOL is in order. [Twitter]
The musical partnership between director Nicolas Winding Refn and electronic musician Johnny Jewel dates back to Refn's Bronson, which used a track from Jewel's group Glass Candy to strike its stylized period feel. For Refn's latest film, the L.A.-set crime thriller Drive, he turned once more to Jewel to help create an '80s-tinged pop synth sound -- and the inspiration seemed to go both ways, as evidenced by drawings and a full collection of Drive-inspired tracks created by Jewel and his musical collaborators.
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Sure, we've already gotten a sneak peak of what Bradley Cooper could look like as the devil in Paradise Lost, but that doesn't mean Legendary Pictures is done casting their adaptation of the John Milton novel. Just today, Oscar-nominated actor Djimon Hounsou joined the Alex Proyas-directed production as Abdiel, the angel of death. If Paradise Lost still needs an archangel of divine street fights, may we suggest Ryan Gosling? [Variety]
Following the recent success of Midnight in Paris and the filming of Bop Decameron in Rome, Woody Allen is apparently planning to set his next film in Germany. Exciting! And maybe a little predictable, but I'm enjoying the minor Zelig flashback this news conjures. Do you have visions for locales in the next leg of Allen's film career? There's one hope I refuse to let go...
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Pioneering silent film comedian Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle -- whose career was ruined following charges that he raped and murdered actress Virginia Rappe in 1921 (he was acquitted) -- is getting a proper biopic treatment in the HBO movie The Day the Laughter Stopped, with Modern Family star Eric Stonestreet set to star. The tragic story will be spun by John Adams scribe Kirk Ellis, with Barry Levinson attached as director. Seems like a perfect storm of talents; I just wish HBO titled it something a little more Arbucklian, like Fatty's Big Murder or Mabel's Confounding Demise. [Vulture]
50/50 is shaping up to be the sweetest, funniest comedy of the fall -- and, as a new red band clip featuring stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen proves, it may also be the sexually frankest. Would you like to learn how to do it froggy-style? Allow Mr. Rogen to curate. NSFW video ahead!
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In Gavin O'Connor's Sept. 9 MMA drama Warrior, Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton are estranged brothers who find themselves on competing paths towards the same mixed martial arts championship, both fighting desperately for something different. Find out more about what motivates one brother to risk it all in two new stills from Warrior, debuting exclusively on Movieline.
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· Because the world doesn't have enough Woody Allen imitations -- or Wes Anderson imitations -- AMC has partnered with Adam Goldberg, Jeffrey Tambor and writer/director Peter Glanz for The Trivial Pursuits of Arthur Banks. The three-episode web series runs 42 minutes in total, and features enough Manhattan references to sate even Mariel Hemingway. Click through to watch episode one, somewhat hilariously titled "I Pulled a Polanski" and then stick around for more Buzz Break.
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The glamorously screwball Kristen Wiig, who celebrates her 38th birthday today, is now a burgeoning screen star who is successfully elevating the zany and/or downtrodden aspects of her SNL characters into full-fledged performances. What's her most underrated moment on the screen so far?
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Keeping with the trend of bringing movies to the stage, London's musical adaptation of Ghost -- the embarrassingly awesome '80s classic featuring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg and the most erotic pottery wheel scene in the history of cinema -- will hit Broadway this spring. Matthew Warchus, who is directing the Piccadilly Theatre production of Ghost will shepherd this one overseas, though no word yet if stars Richard Fleeshman and Caissie Levy will come along. Ghost, Dirty Dancing, the Red Dawn remake -- what Patrick Swayze property will get re-done next? Road House? [NYT]
Here at Movieline HQ, we've been holding out hope that the untitled Judd Apatow continuation/quasi-sequel to Knocked Up (which has been filming with the working title of This Is Forty) will feature a comeback performance from the terminally maligned Megan Fox. No word yet whether that will happen -- despite co-star Paul Rudd singing her praises last week -- but at least Fox is having fun on the set. Over the weekend she posted a picture of herself and co-stars Jason Segel and Chris O'Dowd mugging for the camera in a swimming pool. Moviemaking! Just like breaking rocks! Click through for the pic.
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From the minute Christopher Nolan and Christian Bale gave that possibly ill-advised press conference announcing the start of The Dark Knight Rises location shoot in Pittsburgh, a torrent of spy pics, videos and spoilers have run out of the Steel City like water from an open fire hydrant. Not that Team Nolan has any hard feelings; the Pittsburgh leg of The Dark Knight Rises shooting schedule has come to a close, prompting Warner Bros. to thank city residents for their cooperation. Click through for a look at the friendly note.
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Also in this Monday edition of The Broadsheet: Pixar announces two new films... Paper Wings finds pilot... Peter Jackson talks West Memphis Three... and more ahead.
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